Target: historical novels in Roman period

[Debbie Stafford]

I am posting this on behalf of a collegue who is having trouble subscribing
to LM_NET. She finally got on but has been unable to post.

I wqould appreciate if you would post (or let me know if there has
been something earlier) concerning historical novels, esp. YA, set in
the Roman Empire also including Roman Occupation of Britain. I know
about the Rosemary Sutcliff novels and am getting all I can of those
in
print.

Debbie Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden Germany
10033...@compuserve.com
Now proudly on the web at www.wies-hs-odedodea.edu

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[miri...@gmail.com]

Dear Debbie I have wriiten a historical e-novel on the Roman period, which begins with the tragic events following the Roman conquest of Masada. My plot is based on a real archaeological finding in the Judean Desert.a divorce document discovered in the Judean Desert. Amazingly the document was issued at Masada some time before it fell to the Romans. In The Scroll, I pictured one of those survivors as the woman mentioned in the divorce document. The Scroll becomes her story, and the story of her descendants through three generations, until the horrifying, waning days of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The actual divorce document records the husband’s name as Joseph, and the wife’s – like mine – as Miriam. While both names are among the most common in the Second Temple period, this book emerged partly out of the desire to explore how a present-day Miriam might have responded to the devastating choices an ancient Miriam faced.

In the book I reveal how I imagine Joseph and Miriam came to be divorced, and how the scroll recording the dissolution of their marriage reached the Judean Desert cave where it was found some 2,000 years later. That scroll becomes my opportunity to share what I believe it must have been like for Jews and Christians in those days to fight for their survival and their faith as worlds collided all around them. I immerse my story in the colorful details of daily life 2,000 years ago, which you know I love to share.

In The Scroll I suggest responses to a burning question that people of faith are asking now more than ever: How and why can religious fervor turn destructive? The Scroll makes clear that this period of “ancient history,” still impacts our lives today.
To download a copy of The Scroll, please go to Smashwords.com, where you can download it to a variety of formats and devices, or to Amazon.com, where you can download it to Kindle.
Please feel free to contact me at m...@netvision.net.il
Thanks and best wishes,
Miriam Feinberg Vamosh